As a design group, we view achieving so-called systemic change among the highest of accomplishments. We believe big changes are possible, and that much of our future depends on humanity’s ability to achieve certain bits of rapid change ASAP. Moreover, the future we aspire to is characterized by a lack of intimidation by the obstacles associated with making “big,” systematic changes. Among those many great metaphors, this quote stands out.Īt Albatross, our ultimate purpose is to effect change that benefits the world. Those who know Albatross Designs know how much we love to apply sailing and boating analogies to life. So I said, “Call me Trim Tab.” - Buckminster Fuller But if you’re doing dynamic things mentally, the fact is that you can just put your foot out like that and the whole big ship of state is going to go.
Society thinks it’s going right by you, that it’s left you altogether. So I said that the little individual can be a trim tab. Just moving the little trim tab builds a low pressure that pulls the rudder around. And there’s a tiny thing at the edge of the rudder called a trim tab.
Think of the Queen Elizabeth - the whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. Our idea of the Trim Tab Condition: Small Change is Meaningful “Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do.
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